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Battle of Atlantic
German U-boats attack Allied ships in groups known as Wolf Packs. They hunted in groups and attacked at night. The American convoy system was ineffective with 300 American ships sunk. Allies eventually won this campaign with the use of Radar. 1,315 Allied ships sunk and 70% of U-boat men died. Enigma (German Code) -
Battle of Britain
Hitler broke his non aggression pact with Stalin and sent his forces into the Soviet Union.German tanks, planes, and soldiers steadily pressed the attack. the Soviet Union appeared close to collapsing, but it did not fall. Britain’s decisive victory saved the country from a ground invasion and possible occupation by German forces while proving that airpower alone could be used to win a major battle. RAF (Royal Airforce) v. Luftwaffe. -
Battle of Stalingrad (Turning point of World War Two)
Stalingrad is a major industrial center on the Volga River. In August 1942, the Germans attacked Stalingrad. It was some of the bloodiest fighting in the history of warfare, the Soviets refused to let Stalingrad fall. 250,000 Axis soldiers were trapped by Soviet forces, the surviving Axis troops were forced to surrender in early 1943. Hitler's forces suffered losses of some 2 million, and the Soviet paid an even higher price of 12 mil soldiers. 800,000 civilians died. Hitler invaded Nazi pact. -
Battle of Stalingrad
The Weather also helped the Soviets in the war. The Red Army was massive. Take the massive ARmy and the U.S. production, Hitler was going tot be overcome at some point. -
Battle of El Alamein, Egypt (Another turning point of WW2)
The Battle of El Alamein marked the culmination of the World War II North African campaign between the British Empire and the German-Italian army. Deploying a far larger contingent of soldiers and tanks than the opposition, British commander Bernard Law Montgomery launched an infantry attack at El Alamein on Oct. 23, 1942. German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel returned to battle from illness and tried to halt the tide, but the British advantage in personnel and artillery proved too overwhelming. -
Battle of El Alamein, Eygpt
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Operation Torch
Operation Torch was the British-American invasion of French North Africa during the North African Campaign of the Second World War which started on 8 November 1942. The German General Erwin Rommel (Desert Fox) (Afrika Korp) of the Operation Torch was a U.S. Lieutenant general named Dwight D. Eisenhower (IKE). After allied forces landed they turned east to to fight the Germans. Some 20,000 Americans were killed or wounded in the six months of North Africa fighting -
Invasiton of Sicily/Italy
The Allied invasion of Italy was the Allied amphibious landing on mainland Italy that took place on 9 July 1943 during the early stages of the Italian Campaign of World War II. The Allied invasion of Sicily, codenamed Operation Husky, was a major campaign of World War II, in which the Allies took the island of Sicily from the Axis powers. -
Operation Overlord
The fighting in Italy was slow and difficult partly because the Allies could not devote all their fighting resources to battle. Many of these resources were being held for planned invasion of France. This plan came known as Operation Overlord. Allies finally settled there location on the beaches of Normandy, in northern France. Eisenhower commanded the mission and chose General Omar Bradley to lead the American troops. Top British commander was Bernard Montgomery -
Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge was a major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France, and Luxembourg on the Western Front toward the end of World War II in Europe. This referred to the bulge in the Allied battle lines created by the German advance -
Hitler Commits Suicide
The steady destruction of German continued and one by one Soviet Union met up with other allied forces. At the same time, Berlin was under heavy bombardment. On April 30 Hitler finally recognized that all hope was lost. It is believed that both he and his wife swallowed cyanide capsules in a bunker in Berlin. For good measures Hitler shot himself with a service pistol -
VE Day
On May 8 in 1945, both Great Britain and the United States celebrate Victory in Europe Day. VE Day marked the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. Cities in both nations, as well as formerly occupied cities in Western Europe, put out flags and banners, rejoicing in the defeat of the Nazi war machine. In Prague, Germans surrendered to their Soviet antagonists, after the latter had lost more than 8,000 soldiers
